pupilage

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Down to the year 1832, the system of common law pleading and practice supplied the student, during the greater period of his pupilage, with little else than the most degrading and unprofitable drudgery.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

When military aviation had outgrown its early pupilage to the Royal Engineers it came under the immediate control of the War Office.

From The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

Strong-willed or not, he would have to leave things alone during his pupilage.

From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

Mr. Boutwell's proposition to remand a State to territorial pupilage would be but the legal enactment and the logical sequence of what has had the enthusiastic approval of a large number of citizens.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

The transition of the son from the pupilage of childhood and youth to the independence of manhood is often trying to the filial relation.

From Hooking Watermelons 1898 by Bellamy, Edward